Unions' Fight Over California Hospital Staff Ends in SEIU Win

The Service Employees International Union won a hotly contested vote to continue representing 45,000 workers at nearly 300 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California.

The election stemmed from one of the most divisive and expensive battles between unions in recent memory. A big SEIU California local faced a challenge over representing the Kaiser employees from the National Union of Healthcare Workers, a much smaller rival...